Pat Marsteller, Ph.D. Associate Dean Professor of Practice in Biology Byron Gardner Graduate Student
Individual Development Planning: Best Practices for Mentors and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Individual Development Planning: Best Practices for Mentors and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Individual Development Planning: Best Practices for Mentors and Mentees Pat Marsteller, Ph.D. Associate Dean Professor of Practice in Biology Byron Gardner Graduate Student If you dont know where youre going, youll probably end up
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up
somewhere else!
If you have a Plan…
people who develop and implement strategies to
pursue career-specific goals achieve greater career success as measured by salary, promotions, and level
- f responsibility
greater career satisfaction and rate themselves as more
successful than their peers
7600 postdocs reported greater satisfaction, published
more papers, and experienced fewer conflicts with those advisers
IDP: Purpose
ID skills and strengths to develop ID research project that is feasible and matches career
goals
Develop a plan to achieve short term and long term
goals and objectives
Define approaches and strategies to reach goals Define benchmarks and timelines for achievement MODIFIABLE!!!
My IDP….
http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/ myIDP provides: Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests,
and values
A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of
which ones best fit your skills and interests
A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year,
with optional reminders to keep you on track
Articles and resources to guide you through the
process
Use My IDP
Skills, Interests and Values Assessment Career Exploration
Consider the Fit Read About Careers Attend Events Talk to People Choose Career Path
Set Goals for Advancement, Skills and Projects Implement Plan Form a Mentoring Team
Questions to ask yourself
What are my objectives in entering grad school? What type of training do I desire? What are my strengths? What skills do I need to develop? What kinds of projects will keep me engaged? Independence vs teamwork? What kind of career do you envision?
Individual Development Plan
Do you have a plan? Timeline for completion? Networking plan for next step? Have you discussed long term goals with your mentor? Write down 3 crucial questions to discuss Share with your neighbor
Career resources
Professional Societies
ACS, ASM, SfN, ASCB, NARST, CUR, NPA, etc. Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)
Government
NIH Office of Science Education, Career Finder NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education
Publications
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Science
Online
Diversejobs.net, AcademicCareers.com, HigherEd Jobs, Inside Higher
Ed, LinkedIn, ScienceCareers.org
http://training.usgs.gov/Leadership/IDP.html http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/example-
personal-development-plan.html
http://www.rsc.org/images/gotadegree_tcm18-
48908.pdf
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=t
rue&_pageLabel=PP_CAREERS&node_id=87&use_sec =false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=f9b0e60f-2c6b- 4676-b89f-cfb8165b1066
Thanks to:
Jo Handelsman Christine Pfund Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grad students and Faculty around the country Cathy Quinones YOU!!
Extra slides
Finding YOUR Passion
Three Circles: What do you like to do? What are you good at? What will make a difference in the world (local,
regional, world)? ( another way to think of this is what needs to change to make the world a better place)
What is inside your circles and what is outside? Take
- ne circle at time and write as many things as you that
go inside that circle for you. Then try to identify things that lie outside your circle.
Passions!
If you push your circles together what kinds of
experiences are at the sweet spot” where what you like to do, what you are good at and what makes a real difference overlap? The sweet spot represents
- PASSIONS. So now redraw your circles so that you can